Email Author Gustavo Arellano

Awards

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  Ask a Mexican

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Ask a Mexican!"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican!

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 7, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 12-7-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 16, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 11-16-06"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2006

  "Ask a Mexican, 8-31-06"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  Ask a Mexican

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 6, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, January 6, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, April 14, 2005

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 7, 2005

  ¡Ask a Mexican!, October 7, 2005

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2011 Stories by Gustavo Arellano

• Greatest Mexican hits of 2011

  published December 29, 2011

  Dear Readers: Here's a look back at some of the best questions of the year. Dear Mexican: Thirteen years old, and I'm... More >>

• Behold, your Ask a Mexican! holiday shopping list

  published December 22, 2011

  Dear Readers: In between your fifteenth tamale and sixth spiked cup of ponche, you're going to have to buy regalos for... More >>

• What's the difference between drug cartels and the conquering kings of Europe?

  published December 15, 2011

  Dear Mexican: This is the second rant I've felt I had to send to you. I don't know if readers are allowed "seconds," but here it goes.... More >>

• Does the war between drug cartels and the Mexican government constitute another revolution?

  published December 8, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I read in your book that Mexico is due for a revolution about every hundred years or so. The last one was in the first... More >>

• Are Mexicans racist?

  published December 1, 2011

  Dear Mexican: Having been called a "gabacho" by "Mexicans" much lighter than I and "wetback" by those whose parents (or who... More >>

• Is the growing number of conservative Hispanics changing ideas about illegal immigration?

  published November 24, 2011

  Dear Mexican: GOP senator Mel Martinez authored a decent compromise bill to resolve the growing illegal-immigration problem in the... More >>

• Why can't Mexico get its act together?

  published November 17, 2011

  Dear Mexican: Why is Mexico such a dump? Just to name a few of the problems: stray dogs running all over the place, piles of trash... More >>

• Why are Mexican women so comfortable with their bodies?

  published November 10, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I am an Anglo intruder in New Mexico. When I moved to Albuquerque from Virginia, I fell in love with Mexican culture. I... More >>

• Why doesn't anyone use "the B-word" for beaner?

  published November 3, 2011

  Dear Mexican: These days, using the word "nigger" is considered so offensive that, in its place, we now use the term "N-word." Of... More >>

• Why can't Americans forget about 9/11?

  published October 27, 2011

  Dear Mexican: There's something I'm concerned about, or bothered by. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I've been here for eight... More >>

• Why is the Mexican soccer team called Chivas?

  published October 20, 2011

  Dear Mexican: Really? You answered "When Should You Use Usted Instead of Tú?" recently over my "Why Won't My... More >>

• What is it about the word "illegal" that Mexicans don't understand?

  published October 13, 2011

  Dear Readers: The Mexican doesn't want to take this week off, but has to because it's his mother periódico's Best Of... More >>

• Do I use tu or usted?

  published October 6, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I learned Spanish in school as a teen. Then, it seems, because I was young, everybody was an usted. I would like to... More >>

• Why do Mexican business owners put huge stereo speakers out front?

  published September 29, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I hear that at the last Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing about redistricting, some lady accused Supervisor... More >>

• Is my marijuana fueling the Mexican drug war?

  published September 22, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I am a half-breed, as they say (Mexican father, Anglo mother), and recently I've been reading a lot about the drug... More >>

• Do Mexicans call each other "lazy Puerto Ricans"?

  published September 15, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I live in upstate New York (that's any part of the state north of the city, for you West Coasters), and while we have a... More >>

• Is it worth it for Mexicans to wait all day for a job?

  published September 8, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I'm a young white dude who drives to work every day, and on my daily commute, I get off the freeway and drive through the... More >>

• How do vatos keep their sneakers so white?

  published September 1, 2011

  Dear Mexican: I see a lot of vatos around wearing the clamdigger pants with the knee-high white socks and white sneakers. While... More >>

• What's in a tres leches cake?

  published August 25, 2011

  Dear Mexican: This is going to sound absolutely and totally Caucasian. Lately we have been trying to lighten the mood around the office... More >>

• What do you call half-Mexicans?

  published August 18, 2011

  Dear Readers: Your faithful Mexican is busy putting the final touches on his coming magnum opus, Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered... More >>

• I love my Mexican woman. Now, how can I lose her family?

  published August 11, 2011

  Dear Mexican: Here is my problem: I was raised in a typical gabacho family. My siblings and I all enjoyed a typical... More >>

• Do Mexicans hate Spaniards?

  published August 4, 2011

  Dear Mexican: A few years back, when I was in high school, my social studies teacher and the leader of our high school M.E.Ch.A. club... More >>

• Mennonites are still the best Europeans to invade Mexico

  published July 28, 2011

  Dear Mexican: A few years ago, my girlfriend and I visited the beautiful city of Merida in the Yucatán. We were surprised to see... More >>

• Go back to Mexico, you wetbacks

  published July 21, 2011

  Dear Ask a Wetback: You and your fellow law-breaking wetbacks don't like Arizona's SB 1070? Too damn bad. Trot back to Make Sick O and... More >>

• If immigrants moved home, could they tolerate what made them move in the first place?

  published July 14, 2011

  Dear Mexican: Say the immigrant makes a few bucks and goes back to his/her home town. Think they'll put up with the shit that prompted... More >>